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VOL. XII. THOMPSON VILLE, CONN., THURSDAY, A PHIL 28, 1892. NO. 51.
itsiuijss lliqtloru.
Physicians and Surgeons.
Ijl F. PARSONS, M. D., PHYSICIAN
J• AND SURGEON.—liesidence unci
odice No.15 Pearl street, Thompsonville,
C >au . Connected by Telephone—No. of
c il 1 o. Oilice hours—S.00 to 9.00 a. m.;
2.00 to 3.00, aud G.OO to 7.30 p. m.
Dentistry.
i) II. THORNTON, D. D. S.,
>• Dental Parlors,
Ylansiey's Block, - Main street,
Thompsonville, Ooun.
Special attention given to Crown, Bridge
and Golil Plate Work.
I'ure Nitrons Oxide (Jas administered for
painless extraction of teeth.
DR. LAWRENCE,
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Can be found at his Thompsonville ofiice
(uver the Post-ortlce)
I0HDATS & TUESDAYS All Day,
aiii SATURDAY AfteruoQBS.
ggg*"" Pure Nitrous Oxide Gas always on
hand for painless extraction.
Music, Etc.
DENSIJOW KING,
—TKACIIEK OF—
Piano-forte, Organ Playing & Harmony.
Address P. O. Box 462,
Thompsonville, ----- Conn.
IH.A. 3E*. A-3Cj.Xji33Kr,
Teacher of Music,
Lindsey's Block (Room 1), Thompson­ville,
Conn.
Also agent for the Finest PIANOS and
OKGANS sold in this vicinity. Can refer
to scores of purchasers. Musical mer­chandise
of every description on hand, or
obtained at short notice.
JLEItOJ* H. SiliES,
TUXKIl and KEPA1BEK of
Fianos and. Organs
SuFi IKI.D, CONN.
Organs and Melndeons repaired with IH W 1 ilk W
Hrst-cluss work guaranteed.
Good references.
Twelve years of practical experience.
&SF Af.EJiT FOB COI.l'JIIHA liHYtl.ES.
T . r*. A.BBEtfc SOKT,
•Dealers in Pianos, Organs, Piano Stools,
Scarfs, Covers, etc., and the
• i -m'/Var <0 White Self-Playing Organs.
_ jtructiou Books constantly on hand.
Also, Second-Hand Instruments to sell or
rent. TIIOMI'SONVILI.K, CONN.
KROEGEK &S0NS' PIANOS.
The Standard Pianos of the Worl d.
A. MOELLEIl Agent,
Kroeger Hall, 92 Pearl St., Hartford, Ot,
ggp^Tuning and repairing of pianos at­tended
to at short notice. References.
Hair Dressing and Shaving.
MICHAEL DONLON, HAIR DRESSEK.
Fred. F. Smith's old stand, under
Thompsonville Hotel, Thompsonville, Ct
ill branches of the business done in an
artistic manner. Please give me a call.
Undertakers and Directors.
A. 3FL. IJEETE,
UNDERTAKER and EIVEBALMER,
45 AND 47 MAIN ST.,
TIIOMPSONVII.LE, . . . CONN.
§gp=- Telephone connections direct with
store.
WILLIAM MULLIGAN,
Funeral Director and Embalmer.
Prompt, careful and personal attention
given to Undertaking in all
its branches.
5 No. Main St., - Thompsonville, Conn.
Printers and Publishers.
THE PARSONS PRINTING COM-pany,
Steam-Power Printers, and
Publishers of THE THOMPSONVELLE PRESS,
opposite the depot, Thompsonville, Conn.
Miscellaneous.
CHARLES E.PRICE, AGENT.—Dealer
in Wood and Coal. Wood a special­ty—
Chips for sale. Moving and heavy
teaming Jone on reasonable terms.
Thompsonville. Conn.
THOMPSONVILLE
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M.J. LIBERTY, Proprietor.
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Plans and estimates furnished for every
i'"l/jMfAisW --.
• W§
••cm
description of Monumental Work and Me­morial
Work, in Marble, Granite and
Brown Stone. Work in cemeteries dupli­cated
; fine flower carving and lettering a
specialty. We have had an experience of
20 years in some of the best monumental
works in the
We are prepared to do first class toork
at less cost than can be furnished by
Vermont, Massachusetts or Connecticut
¥?hop3-
feK gy Favor us with your orders and save
J- paying fancy prices to agents. We can
give first-classreferences, and back up what
r"'we advertise.-' us>*
YAULTSELoV"P !
POWDER Absolutely Pure.
A cream of tartar baking powder.
Highest of all in leavening strength.
— [Latest ('. S. Gov. Food Report.
Financial.
rjpHE K. D. & ROBT. E. SPENCER CO.,
BANKERS.
Capital, $25,000
II. D. SPENCER, MANAGER.
ROB'T. E. SPENCER, CASHIER.
J. W. GRAHAM, ASST. CASHIER.
OFFICE HOURS, 9.30 A. M. to 12.00 M. ; 1.30
to 3.30 P. M.
A General Banking Business Transacted,
Interest Allowed on Deposits.
THE R. D. & ROBT E.
Thompsonville, Conn.
Banking and Financial.
JNVESTMENT JGONDS.
QOUNTY,
C,TV.
J^AILROAD,
STREET "O AILWAY
XV AND
ATELL QO. JGONDS.
Also, guaranteed dividend-paying stocks
suitable for trust funds and
private investment.
"S7STOODBURY cfc HVEOULTON,
Bankers,
Springfield, Mass. Portland, Mc.
41."» MAIN ST., SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
Pure Fruit Juices !
Drawn from pure block-tin lined Steel
Tanks, affording absolute protection
of the beverage from poison­ous
contamination.
Our Drugs are as Good as our Soda.
The Corner Drug Store,
GEO. R. STEELE, Apothecary,
Cor. Main & Prospect sts.,Thompsonville.
ARTISTIC MONUMENTS!
HcOBEUOBY A CASIIAX,
ARTISTIC MONUMENT MAKERS!
Have on exhibition in their Yards,
520 and 531 Main St.,
OVER FIFTY FINISHED MONUMENTS, AND
:J0 MOW ONES WILL HE PLACED ON
DISPLAY BY Al'KIL i!0TH.
hi ordering monuments it should be remembered:
That. it. is better to see the thing itself than to
order from designs or photographs. Our carriage
is free to customers desiring to visit Springfield
Cemetery.
That TO WINDSOR LOOKS—7.10
0.80 a. m.; 1.30, 2.35,4.46, 6.10 p.m.
WINDSOR LOCKS TO SUBTIHLD—8.16,
10.00 a.m.; 1.67, 4.22, 6.08, 6.48'p.m.
SG#—Pocket TIME TABLES can be otilaU T-
>4 front the Ticket Agents at etatloni*
GONE WITH THE PINS.
Where is the thrill of last night's fear ?
Where is the stain of last week's tear ?
Where is the tooth that ached last year ?
Gone where the lost pins go to;
For last night's riddle is all made plain,
The sunshine laughs at the long past rain,
And the tooth that ached hath lost its pain,
That's what our troubles grow to.
Where are the clothes that we use to wear?
Where are the burdens we used to bear ?
Where is the bald head's curling hair ?
Gone where the pins disappear to;
For the style has changed and the clothes
are new,
The skies are wearing a brighter blue,
The hair doesn't snarl as it used to do.
And the parting has grown more clear,
too.
Where are the bills that our peace dis­tressed
?
Where is the pin that the baby "blessed?"
Where are the doves in the last year's nest?
Where are the pins all gone to ?
On the old bills paid are the new ones
thrown,
The baby's at school with her pins out­grown,
And the squabs are running a nest of their
own —
You can't bring 'em back if you want to.
We can stand the smart of yesterday,
To-day's worse ills we can drive away;
What was and is brings no dismay
For past and present sorrow;
But the burdens that make us groan and
sweat,
The troubles that make us fume and fret,
Are things that haven't happened yet—
The pins that we'll find to-morrow.
THEIR WAGES RAISED.
AN ARIZONA STATION AGENT'S EXPERIENCE
On a recent visit to Arizona I had the
misfortune to be obliged to travel a long
distance on one of the few remaining and
sadly demoralized stage lines of the terri­tory.
After crawling over the hot, sandy
plains for an entire day I was deposited
at night in a driving storm (the only pas­senger)
at a stage station, a half-ruined
adobe structure standing alone in the
desert, and kept by an old Mexican who
spoke no English. The driver was also
a Mexican, and as I don't speak Spanish,
I anticipated an evening as dreary as the
ride. My delight can therefore be imag­ined
at finding, storm-bound, before a
roaring fire, in the one room of the house,
an intelligent American, evidently an old
resident of the territory.
After a very palatable meal the strauger
took the lead in a conversation upon the
resources of Arizona, and evinced so per­fect
a familiarity with the coantry ^trtHte.
history that I felt that he must be able to
tell many an interesting tale of thrilling
adventure. Suggesting this, he thought
a moment, and then proceeded as follows:
"Yes, I have seen considerable of the
rough side of Arizona life, and I presume
I could tell as many Indian stories as the
average prospector, but they are common
enough here, and nearly all alike. If you
please, therefore, I'll relate an incident of
my railroad experience—something a little
out of the usual line :
'*1 was station agent at Fairbanks, the
shipping point for Tombstone in '83, the
year after the completion of the Sonora
railway. I had been drifting about the
territory for a dozen years, engaged in as
many different occupations. I was a tele­graph
operator in the East, but every man
takes a new trade when he comes to this
country, and I was like the rest—always
expecting to make my fortune and have
no further need to do anything.
"Operators were plentiful enough in
Tombstone, but mining wages were high,
and prospectors' hopes even higher, so
key-rattling offered but little inducement,
and was resorted to only when funds were
low. That was my condition. T had
dropped a couple of thousand in following
^a copper-cropping at Bisbee, and hadn't
even the price.of a meal, when I received
ray order to relieve the operator at Fair­banks.
"I presume you know what that country
was in '82. Tombstone was at its best—
or perhaps its worst, for I presume it was
the roughest camp ever seen on this con­tinent.
Robbery and murder were of daily
occurrence, drunken cowboys rode the
streets at night, shooting right and left,
and nothing but the fear of lynch law had
the least restraint on the gangs of cut­throats
that infested the entire region. ' It
was a little better in '83. Judge Lynch
had been been doing good work. Other­wise
even hunger would scarcely have
driven me to accept the most dangerous
position on the line. Tombstone is eight
miles from Fairbanks, stages connecting
with every train. The quartz mills are
built along the San Pedro, near the rail­road,
and the ore is hauled, from the mines
over the road between the two places.
Despite the great amount of travel, rob­beries
were frequent,and every few weeks,
the stkge, bristling all over with shotguns
and revolvers as it vyas, ylelded.its tribute
to the road ageuts.
"So far, the depot, though often con­taining
considerable Wells-Fargo treasure,
had escaped attack, but I felt that it could
not remain unmolested. Fairbanks Is but
a single row of houses (mostly saloons)
on the east side of the track, and the
depot is really about as isolated from
sterling aid, in case it were needed, as if
no town were near.
"I tools care to lbrward the expresi
money whenever possible on the day re*
oeived, but on pay days large sums often
came in after the departure of the train,
and the money lay In the safe all night. I
felt that it was risky business, and I grew
so apprehensive that the slightest unusual
sound at night, would bring me up, stand­ing,
with a revolver in each hand, almost
before I wa& fairly awake.
"When I had been on the line about
three months a lot of the boys United in
an appeal to headquarters for a raise in
Our salaries owing to the dangerous na­ture
of the country and our duties. I
,*M made l«(lder pMfcp.,
when the reply came it was addressed to
me.
"We were receiving, it said, nearly
double the wages of railroad employes in
Massachusetts, where the road was owned,
and fully equal to those prevalent through­out
the Western states. The directors
believed that the stories of the depravity
of the population were greatly exagger­ated,
and conceived that there was no real
danger to their employes. However, one
of their number was about to make a tour
of the company's lines and he would hear
what we had to offer, etc.
"I wired the boys along the line the
substance of this answer,and their replies
were more forcible than diplomatic. At
first we were in daily expectation of the
visit of this functionary from Boston, but
weeks passed, our interest flagged, and
finally something occurred which drove
the matter eutirely out of my mind.
"It was pay-day at the mills, and after
the departure of the up train there was an
unusually large arrival of coin remittances,
whfch I placed in the safe, to be forward­ed
next day.
"About 5 o'clock I heard my call, in a
quick, nervous style. I responded and
found the operator at Contention, the
next station north, at the key.
" 'Is there any one in your office?'
" 'No.'
" 'Or outside, where they can hear the
instrument?'
"There were a few loafers on the plat­form,
so I deadened the sounder and an­swered
:
" 'AH right; go ahead.'
"But still the Contention man was not
satisfied. He rapped out: 'Attach your
gronnd wire and shut out the stations
south.' I did so, aud by that time my
curiosity was considerably aroused.
" 'Now listen. Pedro Morlino, a Mexi-cau,
has just come in from Huachuca and
tells me he has heard of a plot among the
Bisbee gang to rob your station to-night
and do you up if you resist. I believe we
can rely on what he says. I saved his
hair from the Apaches two years ago and
he remembers it.'
"While this somewhat startling message
was coming in 1 was looking out of the
window, and noticed that two of the
group of loafers were lounging up close to
the wall of the depot,near the instrument,
as if to hear the subdued click. Agitated
as I was, I saw danger in the least thing,
and, sending a word of warning, restored
the sounder to its usual tone and began
chatting away on some commonplace
topic, including the condition and work­ing
of the instrument, as if there was
something the matter with it. My two
men walked off a little, but still kept w.ith-
Kin earshot of tbe^^
'I'll deaden it again and see how it
sounds,' aud I did so. While this byplay
was going on, I had been thinking hard,
and was now ready for action. 'AH right.
I can do nothing here, as I'm watched
Send your Mexican and another trust­worthy
man, if you can find one, to the
head vigilante at Tombstone—you know
who. Tell him to get a posse and close
in by 10 o'clock; they won't come before
—and lie low till they get to work. I'll
begin shooting,for a signal, if they don't.'
" 'All right.'
"By this time the two men had again
drawn close,so I restored the sounder, and
resumed the general conversation common
on a line where there is little business.
They were evidently spies for the gang
and understood telegraphy. I could tell
that by the expressions of their faces
when I cracked a stale joke and watched
them out of the corner of my eye.
"They were still on duty when I went
to my supper, but when 1 returned, just
before dark, one of them had disappeared,
while the other had retire'd to the porch
of a saloon in the row of buildings facing
the track. It was quite likely that half of
his comrades were lurking in this and
neighboring saloons watching me, as they
thought, going blindly to my fate.
"I welcomed visitors that evening and
kept them by pretext as long as possible.
Before 10, however,the last one had gone,
and I locked up for the night. There was
little to do—too little—for when I had ex­amined
my rifle and revolvers there was
nothing before me but a dreary wait for
something to happen. Hours passed—11,
12, 1—and I had about concluded that my
warning had been a false alarm or ^the de­fense
had been discovered, when there
was a sharp tapping at a window.
"I made no response, but the cold chills
began to chase one another up and down
my back. I was evidently surrounded by
a gang of the worst cutthroats in Amer­ica,
who would as soon kill me as take a
drink. But was there an outer circle of
good and true men surrounding them?
would have given a good deal to have
known.
"Another and louder rap.
"No answer.
" 'Halloa, Bill!' '
"This salutation was loud enough to
waken any ordinary sleeper,and I thought
I had better answer It.
"Halloa! Who's there?'
" 'It's me. I want an express package
you've got for me.' , ? ;
" 'Too late to-night. Come round In
the morning.'
" 'Well, I can't come to-morrow. I've
got a very particular engagement else­where,
and if you let me in quietly it'll be
the better for you. If you don't I'll come
In and take it anyhow.'
"I made no answer.
"A; moment late? I heard^gpmo
w o r k a t t h e d o o r . ' I . . &
«. M.
Stearns.
1. "Have mercy upon me, O God, ac
cording to thy loviiigkindness; according
unto the multitude of thy tender mercies
blot out iny transgressions." This is the
third of the seven penitential psalms, the
others being the vi. xxxii, cii, exxx, cxliii.
xxxviii. The title gives tlie circumstances
which led David to write this psalm, and
the whole story is found in II Sam. xi and
xii. Let all consider the true significance
of the seventh commandment as taught by
our Lord Jesus, and let only those who are
not guilty throw stones.
2. "Wash me thoroughly from mine in
iquity, and cleanse me from my sin." Likt
the leper who said, "Lord, if Thou wilt
Thou canst make me clean" (Mat h, viii, 2),
he believes that the Lord can cleanse him,
and he wants it done thoroughly. How
such a word as I John i, 9, would have
comforted him, "If we confess our sins He
is faithful and just to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us from all unrighteous­ness."
But he had virtually the saint
teaching in Lev. vi, 1-7.
3. "For I acknowledge my transgressor,
and my sin is ever before me." "Only ac
knowledge thine iniquity, that tliou hast
trangressed against the Lord thy »ined,
and done this evil in thy sight, that thou
piightest be justified when thou speakest.
and be clear when thou judgest." When
Nathan reproved him he said, "1 have
sinned against the Lord" (II Sam xii, 13),
When Joseph was sore tempted, instead ol
yielding as David did, he said, "How can
I do this great wickedness and -sin against
God?" (Gen. xxxix, 9.)
5. "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me."
David recognizes sin in his nature, he did
not believe that we are by nature holy, hut
as Paul testifies by the Spirit. "By naturt
the children of wrath, even as others'
(Eph. ii, 3). "By one man sin entered the
World, H.n
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blood, dispels aches and pains, gives re­freshing
sleep, jvnd restores flesh and
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It's the only r/uaravfeed medicine for
women, sold by druggists.
Bakery, &c.
Dressmaking!
DRESSMAKING neatly done in all
branches of the business, by
MISS NELLIE II. CLARKE,
4 >So. Main St., over Willis's store,
Thompsonville, Conn.
0
OB SPECIALS!
CHOICE PERFUMES!
We carr> a l'ull Line of the principal odors.
Honest TOOTH I't'WDKli, as good as any, and
only ID cents a l)i)ttli-
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